The lasers that changed the life of Donna Strickland
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April 12, 2023
The work of women scientists is often too little known and publicized. They fail to get the proper credit, unlike their male colleagues. The story of...Read more
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Lise Meitner, who helped unlock the secrets of the nucleus of atoms
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March 14, 2023
The physicist Lise Meitner discovered nuclear fission, but her work has not gained the recognition it deserves. Some of her male colleagues reaped...Read more
Vera Cooper Rubin, the woman who discovered the dark side of the Universe
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February 14, 2023
The astronomer Vera Rubin isn’t a name to the general public. Nevertheless, she made some major discoveries, which became important research topics...Read more
Susan Jocelyn Bell, the overlooked Nobel Prize winner
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October 16, 2019
The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974 created a lively controversy when it was awarded to the astrophysicist Anthony Hewish for the discovery of pulsars...Read more
The first picture of the Universe
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October 24, 2018
Forty years ago, physicists Arno A. Penzias and Robert W. Wilson received the Nobel Prize in physics for discovering cosmic microwave background...Read more
